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Add Pylint parity to FAQ (#969)

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@ -897,6 +897,18 @@ Beyond the rule set, Ruff suffers from the following limitations vis-à-vis Flak
2. Flake8 has a plugin architecture and supports writing custom lint rules. (Instead, popular Flake8
plugins are re-implemented in Rust as part of Ruff itself.)
### How does Ruff compare to Pylint?
At time of writing, Pylint implements 409 total rules, while Ruff implements 224, of which
at least 60 overlap with the Pylint rule set. Subjectively, Pylint tends to implement more rules
based on type inference (e.g., validating the number of arguments in a function call).
Like Flake8, Pylint supports plugins (called "checkers"), while Ruff implements all checks natively.
Unlike Pylint, Ruff is capable of automatically fixing its own lint errors.
Pylint parity is being tracked in [#689](https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/issues/689).
### Which tools does Ruff replace?
Today, Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 when used with any of the following plugins: